Phobe cathia D. Gandhi

 
  • Family : LAURACEAE
    (Laurel Family)
  • Family (Hindi name) : DALCHINI FAMILY (दालचीनी फैमिली)
  • Family (as per The APG System III) : Lauraceae
  • Synonym(s) : Cinnamomum cathia D.Don; Laurus cathia Buch.-Ham. ex Meisn.; Laurus paniculata Wall.; Laurus tomentosa Buch.-Ham. ex Meisn.; Ocotea paniculata Nees; Ocotea paniculata var. minor Nees; Ocotea pubescens Nees; Persea cathia Spreng.; Persea tomentosa Spreng.; Phoebe pallida subsp. borii M.Gangop.; Phoebe paniculata (Nees) Nees; Phoebe paniculata var. pubescens (Nees) Meisn.; Phoebe prazeri M.Gangop.; Phoebe pubescens (Nees) Nees; Phoebe wightii Meisn.
  • Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Phoebe cathia (D. Don) Kosterm.
  • Habit : Tree
  • Key identification features : Tall trees, up to 20 m high; young shoots rusty tomentose; Leaves crowded at end of branches, elliptic to oblong-obovate or oblanceolate; Flowers in corymbose panicles, ferrugineous tomentose; Fruits ovoid- ellipsoid, blackish.
  • Flower, Fruit : November-June
  • Collection Nos : CJS 16213, CJS 16740, Franklin 8
  • Distribution :
    • Karnataka : Chikkamagaluru district, Hassan district, Kolar district
    • Sikkim : Sikkim
    • Arunachal Pradesh : Kameng
    • Meghalaya : Meghalaya
    • Assam : Assam
    • Nagaland : Nagaland
    • Mizoram : Mizoram
    • Manipur : Manipur
    • Tripura : Tripura
  • Native : Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, Vietnam
  • Exotic/Native : Native
  • World Distribution : Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, Vietnam
  • Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
  • Literature :
    • Cecil J. Saldanha, S. R. Ramesh (1984). Flora of Karnataka State vol. 1. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co, New Delhi
    • G.S Giri., A.Pramanik., H.J. Chowdhery., G.D Pal and S.K. Das (2008). Materials for Arunachal Pradesh, Vol (2), Pg: 344
  • Read more :
  • Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Phoebe cathia. Downloaded on 6 October 2024.

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India Distribution

World Distribution

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